Adela Cortina y Emilio Martínez, authors. From a delimitation of the field of Ethics as a moral philosophy to progressively delve into the three tasks that correspond to ethical knowledge: clarify the phenomenon of morality, base it and apply moral principles to the different fields of the human. An open ethical approach is adopted, which attends to the most relevant contributions in the history of ethics from Greece to the different contemporary currents (utilitarianism, communitarianism, liberalism, postmodernism). But at the same time a certain perspective is adopted, rooted in the Kantian tradition, in the Hispanic ethical tradition of Ortega, Zubiri and Aranguren, in J. Rawls' "justice as fairness" and in K.O. Apel and J. Habermas. In this way, the reader is asked the great questions: What does morality consist of? Why should there be rationally preferable moral conceptions over ...read more
